Violin instruction for each song is completely
compatible with popular classical violin methods.
Full of important information for any aspiring musician.”
— Avi Friedlander, Director of the Barston Suzuki Center at the Music Institute of Chicago
The perfect violin supplement book to spice up your recitals while exposing your students to jazz!
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An excellent introduction for young violinists to the uniquely American art form of jazz and improv! The brief histories about some of our jazz greats are just wonderful. I wish this was around when my boys were learning to play – they would have LOVED it!”
— Maureen Byrne, Senior Director, Education & Community Partnerships, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
Jazz Songs for the Student Violinist offers a step by step and user-friendly approach to playing jazz. Students learn tunes—each with an excellent historical description—commonly found in the jazz canon and learn accessible improvisational techniques using rhythm, embellishment, and the blues. This book is a wonderful supplement to the Suzuki method!”
— Matt Turner, Cellist, Jazz & Improvisational Music Department, Lawrence University Conservatory of Music
This is book is full of important information for any aspiring musician that would like to open their minds to the language of jazz and improvisation. With clear laid-out steps in learning how to play tunes, this book should set up all the important foundations for future roads in improvisation.”
— Avi Friedlander, Director of the Barston Suzuki Center at the Music Institute of Chicago